About the Authors
- Mirko Cortese
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Affiliation Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Siena, Italy
- Stefano Calò
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Affiliation Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Siena, Italy
- Romina D'Aurizio
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Affiliation Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Siena, Italy
- Anders Lilja
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Affiliation Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Nicola Pacchiani
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Affiliation Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Siena, Italy
- Marcello Merola
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* E-mail: marcello.merola@novartis.com
Affiliations Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Siena, Italy, Department of Structural and Functional Biology, University of Naples “Federico II”, Naples, Italy
Competing Interests
This study was funded by Novartis Vaccines Diagnostics and partially by “Ministero dell'Istruzione dell'Università e della Ricerca, grant number PON01_00117”. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors. Commercial funder does not alter authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. MC and SC are the recipients of a Novartis fellowship from the PhD program in Cellular, Molecular and Industrial Biology of the University of Bologna, and from the PhD program in Cellular Biology of the University of Padua, respectively. RD, AL and NP are full-time employees of Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics. MM is employee of the University of Naples “Federico II” and Novartis external collaborator.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: MM MC. Performed the experiments: MC SC RD. Analyzed the data: MC MM AL NP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AL. Wrote the paper: MC MM AL.